Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room of the Lost Generation. Through it passed every star in the artistic firmament between the two World Wars-Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Picasso and Matisse, T. S. Eliot and Sherwood Anderson, Ford Madox Ford and Carl Van Vechten. Three generations of young writers came for guidance to the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Novelists, composers, poets, painters and playwrights sipped the fragrant colorless liqueurs of the two U.S.-born hostesses (which they made themselves from plums and raspberries), dined on such Toklas specialties as Bass for Picasso and argued for hours over cubism...
Hashish Fudge. Only after Gertrude died did Alice become an author her self. Besides two charming cookbooks, which give recipes for such puckish delicacies as Hashish Fudge ("Two pieces are quite sufficient"), she wrote her own account of the Stein salon in What Is Remembered. In it she recalls Stein's deathbed scene: "I sat next to her, and she said to me early in the afternoon, 'What is the answer?' I was silent. 'In that case,' she said, 'what is the question?' " The years after Stein's death were empty ones...
First he stopped in Dallas to pick up the Neiman-Marcus award as the year's most original dress designer. Then he went on to Palm Beach, where Martha's, an exclusive salon with shops in Florida and New York, bestowed a similar award. In Manhattan, 400 socialites turned out to see his clothes at a benefit cocktail party on the St. Regis roof for the Committee to Rescue Italian...
What makes his success all the more remarkable is that Valentino opened his salon in Rome only six years ago, after learning the trade from Jean Dessès and Guy Laroche in Paris. Says Valentino Customer Consuelo Crespi: "He went after the extravagant, luxurious woman, and what he wanted he got." First he got Jackie Kennedy by dedicating five evening gowns to her in 1961. She remains his most constant client, last year bought her pants suit from his collection. She often writes him long, glowing letters, has even been known to clap her hands, crying "Valentino, live...
...acknowledged king of Italian couture. His brown and white "head to toe" line featuring chain-printed silks was the hit of Rome's recent spring and summer collections. Though he has a staff of nearly 200 at his headquarters on Via Gregoriana, he has just opened a second salon in Milan to keep up with orders...